Quotes from Richard Livingstone

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.